Article-positioning means.



S. BRAND, ARTICLE POSITIONING MEANS. AJPPLIOATION FILED AUG. 28, 1907.

1,095,977 Patented May 5, 1914.

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SAMUEL BRAND, OF ROCKFORD. ILLINOIS. ASSIGNOR, BY ASSIGNMENTS, TU

HOWARD D. COLMAN, LUTHER L. MILLER, AND HARRY A. SEVERSON, COPARTNEBS.

TRADING AS BARBER-COLMAN COMPANY, L ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

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To allwhom it'mag concern:

Beit known that l, SAMUEL Benin, a citizen of the United States. residing at Rockford, in the county of ll'innebago and State of Illinois. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l-\rticle-Positioning Means, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for placing articles in a predetermined position.

One object of this invention is to provide means for presenting articles with uniformity to a point of discharge;

. Another object of the invention is to provide means whereby a particular end will I always be foremost in going through a discharge.

I have herein shown the invention as adapted for receiving a number of bobbins and means is disclosed for selecting and in suring that the tip end of the bobbin will always be presented foremost through a discharge opening in the receptacle.

The present embodiment ofthe invention is in the nature of an accessory to spoolers, winders andv other machines which operate upon bobbins containing" filling yarn or yarn warp.

In the accmnpanying drawings, Figure 1 -is a top plan view of an apparatus embody videdwith a peripheral-series of bobbinpockets formed in this instance by transverse partitions or flanges 7 rigidly mounted upon its periphery. The drum 4 and.

the inlet passage 9 are so disposed with reference to each other that the bobbins'will be delivered singly into the bobbin-pocketsa littlelto one side of the highest point in the periphery of the drum. In the present instanjcethe bobbin-pockets are wide enough to permit of a slight amount of movement Specification of Letters Patent.

of the bobbins around the drum 4 as th latter is rotated to carry the bobbins past said highest point. From a point somewhat above the horizontaleenter of tie drum to the u'pper'end of the discharge chute 3 the outer sides of the bobbin-pockets are closed by ,a curved guard plate 8 fixed in the frame 1. I

To each side of the drum. -l issecured a ravided with a pin 10 adapted to enter the opening in the head end of the bobbin, but too large to pass into the smaller opening in the tip end of the bobbin. In the upper part of the framework 1 at each side of the drum 4 is a stationary cam 11 adapted to force the spring arms 9 outward, said cam extending from a point somewhat in advance of the inlet passage 9. to a point about sixty-five degrees past the highest point in the periphery of the drum. The pins 10 are of such length that when one of them lies in the opening in the head of the bobbin, the other does not press against the tip end of the bobbin, but merely prevents any considerable endwise movement of the bobbin.

Inoperation, the drum 4: is rotated and the bobbins fed through the inlet passage 2 by any suitable means adapted to deliver I Patented lilayfifll file. Application filed August 28, 1907. Serial-No. 390,446. i

diatiup; series of spring arms-'9, each proone bobbin to each bobbin-pocket. The

cams 11 hold the spring arms 9 bent outwardly throughout the greater portion of.

their travel above the horizontal plane of the center of the drum. lVhen a bobbin in the rotation of the drum 2 is carried slightly past the highest point of the'periphery of the drum. said bobbin rolls downward against the forward flange '7 tion it lies with its ends in proper position to be engaged by the-spring arms 9 whenthe latter are permitted to return to their inward normal position by the cams 11. The

pin 10 carried by one of said spring arms then passes into the axial opening in the head end of the bobbin. The bobbin is re tated inthis position until it reaches the? discharge chute 3, when the smaller end of the bobbin swings downward, as indicated.

in Figs. 2 and, 3. the pin engaging the head end of the bobbin serving: apivo't for the bobbin. or in other words, causing the bobbin to, turn as it falls from itsipocke't. lt will thus be seen that the bobbins are delivered from the drum 4 'into the disin which posi charge chute 3 tip end first, without regard to their position when placed in the lnlet passage 2.

It is evident that movable carriers of other forms may be substituted for the drum 4:, that the bobbins might be discharged at an earlier point in the rotation. of the drum, that the head end of the bob bin might be engaged otherwise than piv ber adapted to enter the lower end of each bobbin.

2. Bobbin-positioning means comprising a rotatory member having a peripheral se ries of bobbin-pocketsadapted to contain bobbins with their ends toward the sides of said member, a radiating series of spring arms secured to each side of said member, pins on said arms adapted to enter the head ends of the bobbins, and a stationary cam for forcing said spring arms outward into inoperative position.

8. A receptacle for receiving bobbins provided with tips and heads, the heads of some of the bobbins being in alinement with the tips of adjacent bobbins, and means for selecting the tip of each. bobbin irrespective of the position of the bobbin and causing said tip to be passed foremost through the receptacle.

4. A bobbin positioning means comprising a rotatory.member having a series of bobbin pockets; and means at each side of each pocket movable into and out of operative position to engage a certain end of the bobbin in a pocket.

5. A bobbin positioning means comprising a rotatory bobbin carrier; and means at each ide of rairl carrier to engage the head end of each b0 bin.

6. Means for handling bodies having differently constructed ends, comprising means for receii ingi such bodies, and two series of oppositely disposed resiliently-supported devices each adapted to engage a certain end of such a body, said series-being locatedat opposite sides of said receiving means so, that the bodies lie between the two series, the-space between two opposed devices of said series being only sutlicient to receive a outward into inoperative position, and stationary means for closing the outer sides of said pockets during a portion of their travel, the bobbins falling from said pockets when rotated past said closing means, and swinging downwardly on the resiliently supported means.

8. Bobbin-positioning means comprising a part on which bobbins may be supported, and movable members carrying pins adapted to enter the head ends ofthe bobbins, said members being arranged at opposite ends of bobbins supported on said part, the bobbins falling from said supporting part when moved oif said part, and swinging downwardly on the pins engaging the head ends of said bobbins.

9. Bobbin-positioning means comprising a part on which bobbins may be supported, and movable members carrying devices adapted to engage a certain end of the bobbins and not adapted to engage the opposite end of the bobbins, said members being arranged at opposite ends of bobbins supported on said part, the bobbins falling from said supporting part when moved ofi' said part, and swinging downwardly on the degices engaging said certain ends of the bob- 10. Bobbin-positioning means comprising a rotatory member having a single peripheral series of bobbin-receiving pockets, said pockets extending transversely of "the rotatory member so as to carry the bobbins with their ends toward the sides of said member, spring arms i'noving with said member ,iat each side of the latter, bobbin pivoting means on said arms for engaging one end of each bobbin, and means for holding said arms in inoperative position through a part of the rotation of said member.

SAMUEL BRAND. Witnesses H. B. ELMERS, BURT A. PETERSON.

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